News & Updates

This week we've caught up with a veteran modder, modeller, and texture artist who has created a dazzling array of high quality and highly customisable content for Fallout 4. Niero has recently also tried his hand at Skyrim mods, creating one of the top weapon mods this year CROSS_Crucible.

Thank you for taking the time out to chat with us. Before we talk modding, can you tell us a little about yourself?

Hey there, thanks for the interview, I'm a west coast American who ...

Roughly two years ago SureAI - an indie studio from Munich, Germany - released their massive project called Enderal - The Shards of Order - a total conversion mod for Skyrim. Since then, hundreds of thousands of players have been able to explore the completely new story and world of Enderal, embarking on entirely new adventures, separate and distinct from the lore of the Elder Scrolls series. Today we are talking to Nicolas, project lead on Enderal, about re-releasing on Steam, the new Forgotte...

This week we’re chatting with Mihail (MihailMods). Best known for his massive collection of creature mods for Skyrim and Skyrim Special Edition. Mihail is preparing to release a mega pack, containing over 100 of his creations in a single pack.

Thank you for taking the time to speak with us Mihail. Before we get into your mods could you tell us a little about yourself?

Hello, my friends from Nexus staff, and hello to all my friends from the Nexus community. I'm very...

FrankFamily﻿ is the creator of many artifact and HD overhaul mods for the Elder Scrolls: Skyrim. If you are looking for some amazing paladin armour, or want to get your hands on some special artifacts of Boethia, make sure to check out his mods. Today we are happy to talk to FrankFamily about his work, modding in general, and more.

You are mostly known for your mods that add brand new models of swords, armours, and artifacts to the world of Skyrim. Before we get to your moddi...

If you have played and modded Skyrim for any amount of time, you might have heard of the massive modding project that is Beyond Skyrim. This is a multi-team mod project with the goal of expanding the borders of the game world - you guessed it - beyond Skyrim, adding entirely new provinces from Tamriel to Skyrim's game world for you to explore. Today we are talking to Bellatrix, MrJGT, 1shoedpunk, 1ndajone5, Lasur, and Daniel Ran from the team from Beyond Skyrim: Cyrodiil﻿ - creators of Beyond...

As part of our ongoing efforts to expand our development team we’re looking for a front end developer/designer to join us. In the long term you'll be a major creative driving force behind Nexus Mods, shaping how our entire brand looks and feels for millions of users. This position is based in our offices in Exeter in the UK, it is not a remote working position and we cannot sponsor VISA applications so you will need a right to work in the UK or EU.

Today we are talking to expired6978. He is not only the author of RaceMenu, LooksMenu, Extensible Follower Framework and various other mods, but also a key contributor to the various script extenders for both Skyrim and Fallout 4. If you have modded Skyrim or Fallout 4 for any extent of time, chances are you have run into a mod or two expired6978 had a hand in.

BigBizkit: You are most well known for your modding work such as your character creation overhauls RaceMenu and LooksM...

In early 2017 we set out to develop an entirely new mod manager. It was our intention to create a mod manager that would be a suitable replacement for our ageing Nexus Mod Manager and combine its simplicity with a more powerful set of tools and features designed to make modding as accessible as possible to all types of modders - newcomers and veterans alike.

We gave this project the name Vortex, and our lead developer Tannin has been working on it along with our new Vortex developer...

Since 2007, Nexus Mods has had a download speed cap of 1MB a second on all downloads unless the user is a Premium Member. Starting this week, this download speed cap has been increased to 2MB a second if certain criteria are met.

Why does Nexus Mods place a speed cap on downloads?
The download speed cap on Nexus Mods ensures we can budget for and keep our substantial bandwidth bills within an acceptable price range and makes sure we aren't shocked (or utterly destroyed!) ...

In today's feature we'll be talking to a pillar of the Fallout 4 mod community, kinggath, the brains behind the ultimate settlement building experience - Sim Settlements. A mod that has laid the framework for an entire category of add ons, city packs and more!

With this interview, we've decided to try out publishing the audio from our interview with Kinggath so you can listen along as you read. Let us know what you think of this format.
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It's that time again! We're giving you the chance to win one Steam Gift Card worth £35 (~$50).

"But Picky," I hear you ask "why is this number 15?". Well sport, we've decided to change the way we number the giveaways. It makes it easier for us to track them internally. And it shows off how many times we've given away some cool stuff. With that out of the way, let's get to the goods.

To participate and to not screw up your chances of winning, pay attention to the entr...

At the end of July, the Fallout Miami project released a fantastic new trailer showing off their "vacation wasteland". Amidst all the excitement BigBizkit and I managed to get an interview with 4 of the key team members on the project to talk about Fallout Miami in more detail.

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First of all, could you guys give us a little bit of an introduction as to who you are and what your roles are on the team and what you do?

Fallout New California is a massive mod project for Fallout New Vegas. After 5 years in the making, the team has announced its release date and - if all goes well - come 23rd October, we will all be able to enjoy a brand new story with 12 endings and over 16,000 lines of dialogue.

Today we are joined by the project lead Thaiauxn to talk about this massive endeavour.

To start off, could you tell us a bit about yourself, and how you got started with modding in the fir...

How would you feel about a Nexus Mods merchandise store? That is what we would like to find out, and that is why we have designed a survey, so you guys can give us your direct feedback.

Nexus Mods merchandise is something that has been requested before, and something that we feel could be a great addition to our site. However, before we get cracking on building a dedicated store for it, we would like to hear your thoughts.

Fuse00 is a proficient retexture artist who has created mods for several different games. Her mods have accumulated millions of downloads across Fallout 4, Skyrim, Witcher 3, and Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Today we are happy to talk to Fuse00 about her work, gaming, and modding in general.

BigBizkit: Thank you, Fuse00, for having a chat with us. To start this off, why don’t you tell us a bit about yourself?